quarrelsome
Speech parts
1. quarrelsome - Adjective
2. quarrelsome - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
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Examples
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.
The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.
A good swordsman is never quarrelsome.